Córdoba, being renowned for its beautiful patios and indeed its annual Patios festival in May, is the ideal setting to house such ambitious and striking floral art installations.

The concept is this- international floral artists are invited to participate with sizeable monetary prizes (2018’s winner received 30,000 euros). They are assigned a municipal patio each sponsored by various businesses then they come to Córdoba for a preliminary viewing of their site.

Poster outside the Palacio de Orive for Lola Guerrera (2018 edition)

Along with local volunteers, the artists get to work in designing and constructing their entries across roughly a one week span. The city becomes awash with literally thousands of flowers of all sorts of exotic origins, whatever the artist requires to realise their floral vision.

Here, I’m going to show you all of the installations from 2018 and 2017. Enjoy the pictures! All photos are mine/taken by me.

I absolutely loved this installation and still swoon over the pictures a year on. The palette of soft pinks, yellows and oranges against the sandy coloured backdrop of the building was so gorgeous to behold.

A flurry of flowers, butterflies and glass baubles seemingly suspended in mid-air with white metal trees in the traditional Córdobes filigree design, with a stream of pink flowers was my personal winner. Stunning ❤ .

Festival FLORA has brought a unique celebration to Córdoba which is in keeping with its floral traditions along with modern, quirky art. The patios of this city remain at the heart of this festival and allow visitors and locals alike another chance to see them and not just in the Patios in May or the Patios de Navidad in December.

The organisers will now be taking a much needed rest after a busy few weeks; it will be interesting to see what they come up with next year for Festival FLORA 2019!